Selected Poetry Publications & News

Selected News and Interviews

Chelsea will be in residence at Yaddo in Winter 2024.

Chelsea is a 2022 Bread Loaf Fellow in Poetry!

A Dangerous Place is a New York Times Editors’ Choice.

Listen to U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón read Chelsea’s poem “City Lake” on The Slowdown.

The New York Times discusses A Dangerous Place in “The Lyric Decision: How Poets Figure Out What Comes Next” (Elisa Gabbert).

A Dangerous Place gets a starred review from Publishers Weekly!

The New York Times recommends A Dangerous Place in “What to Read: 4 New Poetry Books.”

The Academy of American Poets includes A Dangerous Place in its “2021 Featured Fall Books.”

The Chicago Review of Books names A Dangerous Place one of “Twelve Poetry Collections to Read in 2021.”

Chelsea is named a 2021 Tin House Scholar.

Watch: Chelsea talks with Sean Murphy at 1455 Author Series.

Chelsea talks to the Missouri Review about winning the Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize. Watch a video of Chelsea reading and in conversation with Poetry Editor Jacob Griffin Hall here.

Selected Publications

The Southern Review: “Someone Else’s Life” (forthcoming)

Copper Nickel: “The River” (forthcoming)

Cincinnati Review: “I Did Not Call My Shame, Shame.” and “Halloween” (forthcoming)

Bennington Review: “I Called My Shame.” and “My Shame Called.” (forthcoming)

West Branch Wired: “Two Hearts” and “Used Car Dealership” (2023)

Southeast Review: “March” and “Dirt Roads” (2022)

Birdfeast: “Spearfish” (2022)

Ninth Letter: “When My Daughter Says God” (2022)

The Boiler: “Willow” (2022)

New Letters: “On Breaking Up with My Reproductive Psychologist after Two Visits” (essay) (2022)

Crazyhorse: “What I Remember Most” (2021)

The Missouri Review: “Maybe You Need To Write a Poem About Mercy,” “Vegetable Gardening,” “Above the Prairies Now Plowed,” “My First Winter Here, I Go Skiing Near My New Home,” “Watching My Daughter Sleep, I Remember When Doctors Said My Breastmilk Would Become Toxic,” and “In the Bar Bathroom” (2021) (winner of the Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize)

The Massachusetts Review: “After the Diagnosis,” “Annual Migration,” “City Lake,” “Covenant,” and “Ghost Child” (nominated for Best New Poets) (2020) (interview with The Massachusetts Review here)